ROGERS — On Oct. 1, 2013, Senior Chief Petty Officer Joe M. Faddis USN (ret.), was piped aboard ship by the Master Bo’sn for his voyage beyond the Great Horizon to the Home Port of Eternity where there are always “Fair Winds and Following Seas.”

Senior Chief Faddis was born Dec. 2, 1935, at Qualls, Okla., in what is now known as Camp Gruber. He was the eighth and youngest child of Joseph Milton and Junie (Marksberry) Faddis.

He was preceded in death by his great-great-grandfather, Alexander Faddis of Scotland and Virginia; his great-grandfather, Thomas Faddis of Kentucky; his grandfather, Franklin Pierce Faddis of Qualls, Okla.; his parents, Milt and Junie Faddis; and six of his brothers and sisters, Sarah Elsie (Faddis) Fountain, Nettie Florence (Faddis) (Fountain) Huff, Haskell Squire Faddis, Ernest Ausie Faddis, Lee Franklin Faddis and B.D. (Pete) Faddis; his first wife, Mary Kathleen (Peters) Faddis of Norman, Okla.; and his second wife, Dorothy Annette (Petillo) Faddis of Ola, whom he was married to for 48 years and was the love of his life.

He is survived by his son (from his first wife, Kathleen), Joe M. Faddis Jr. USN (ret), who is now a high school teacher; his daughter (from his second wife, Annette), Shawna Christie (Faddis) Ford, who works alongside her husband, Phil, a local State Farm insurance agent.

Memorial services will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, at Sisco Funeral Chapel in Springdale. His remains will be cremated and the ashes buried alongside the ashes of his wife Annette in White Oak Cemetery at Qualls.

Memorial contributions may be made to Circle of Life Hospice, 901 Jones Road, Springdale, AR 72764.